About 60 current and former servers at a popular Milwaukee restaurant claim in a federal class action lawsuit that they were not paid the minimum wage, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Wisconsin wage and hour laws.

The lawsuit contends that La Fuente did not start paying workers the required minimum $2.33 an hour until after each server's first customer had been seated, though the workers were required to come in well before that time to roll silverware, set tables and otherwise ready the business. | April 2, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(33)

Nobel Prize winner novelistGabriel Garcia Marquez, who died Thursday in Mexico City, will justly be remembered for "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the remarkable novel that made magical realism in fiction a going thing.

But I'll personally treasure him most for "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," his 1981 novella about the murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario brothers. Boldly, Marquez begins by announcing Nasar's coming murder, before describing the buildup to the inevitable crime: | April 17, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

DUE OUT TUESDAY

BIG BAD WOLVES (Magnolia) Stylish revenge thriller about a detective seeking justice for a young girl's murder; Quentin Tarantino tapped it as his favorite movie of 2013. In Hebrew with English subtitles. (Not rated; pervasive violence, language) Not reviewed. | April 17, 2014»Read Full Article

A few weeks back, there were so many new Milwaukee-made albums to review we couldn't fit them all in print, so here are the holdovers. Get album release info on the bands' websites and look for more reviews next week.

BADGER STATE BEER FESTS

"Dom Hemingway" wastes no time informing viewers that they are about to spend time with a revolting human being.

The title character, played by a beefy and hairy Jude Law, provides a detailed description of his private parts as he stands in prison while engaging in an adult activity. | April 17, 2014»Read Full Article